The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Mon 1/30/06)

Séverine in Summer School

Naked for twenty-four of our last thirty-six
Hours together, and I mean museum-quality, sex-
Shop, God-riddling naked, sapping gold
Light from the windows of her hundred-year-old
Baltimore dorm, we were hungry for selling
Points, like a couple in a showroom. Compelling
Arguments were made to close the deal
And children were discussed. I kissed her from heel
To head in a shower without water;
Then with. Nude, she read me a letter as a waiter
Would his specials, and I couldn't keep
My eyes off: smooth shoulders, belly, pelvis,
Deep olive skin all a balm against sleep.
It was from her sexy grandmother in Dieppe
And Séverine translated, both of us
Somehow drawn to this third party in a tidal
Sort of way, her lunar candor, her antipodal
Ease with words and the world. We were difficult,
Séverine and I, a beautiful strain, a cult
Of two. Even eating, we made lots of noise.
Even resting in bed, watching the trees,
Our lighter breathing, our limb-shifting, sheet-
Rustling, even our dreaming had fight.
Her heart was exceptionally loud — not with love,
But with knowing. Knowing what to be afraid of.

Rex Wilder

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RL

"her antipodal
Ease with words and the world. "

I love the rhythm of that line.

Thank you. :hug:

:hi:

RL

I'm pretty sure reading sex poems aloud is how I ended up with one of these kids. ;)

silly...

:hi:

RL

I have to go to Starbucks to be alone, and I don't think they train the baristas to deal with that.

:hi:

in starbucks...

:rofl:

Poor little coffee-kids all falling over themselves to serve you...

RL

:rofl: You are so bad.

When I'm good, I'm good. When I'm bad I'm better...

:rofl:

RL

;)

I can send you some letters of recommendation... :D

RL

;)

but knowledge is everything, no?

and i love god-riddling naked.

nakedness is a riddle? i think so.
or is it only a riddle in couples -- adam and eve?

i wonder if rex actually met the grandmother?
and there we go with that bone deep stuff -- severine is a translation of her grandmother?

My kind of naked... :hi:

RL

Lovely, just lovely.....

Not awake just yet, so have nothing profound to say.......

But, still, thank you.....



:loveya: :hug:

:hi:

RL

Not that they were bad, but still, no comparison.

Hope your next 36 are better!

:hi:

RL

Zero chance.

"I kissed her from heel
To head in a shower without water"

oh well...

RL

but it is HIGHLY unlikely such an interlude would start that way.

foreplay should begin a few weeks ahead of time...

:hi:

RL

:*

OMG, did I really just say that?

I really need to get a flirt filter installed...

:blush:

RL

And they are ALL dirty!

Now you'll have me contemplating your exact meaning all night. No sleep for me...

Thank you. :loveya:

that I had not read before. I will be posting newer stuff for the near future.

Really some great new poems out there...

:hi:

RL

Wow. That's effing NAKED, dude! Awesome phrase! :D :evilgrin::spank:

Good poem. :thumbsup:

:hi:

WIMR

Sounds like a 70's actor's name, not a poet. Must find more by him...

:hi:

RL

:D

:hi:

Rex Wilder's engaging first book of poems, Waking Bodies (Red Hen Press, 2006), has already been praised by luminaries as diverse as Richard Wilbur, Adam Zagajewski, Henri Cole, and a spotlight review in London's Times Literary Supplement. Billy Collins, Two-Term Poet Laureate of the United States says, "In Rex Wilder's poetry, the tired English of everyday use comes back to us refreshed and full of its original surprise. In a world glutted with poetry, that Wilder has found a new way to say the old things is a notable achievement." A former Regional Director of the Poetry Society of America in Los Angeles, Wilder has work published in The New Republic, Poetry, Yale Review, American Poetry Review, The Los Angeles Review and The Nation. He is also an award-winning advertising creative director, with three Super Bowl commercials to his credit. He lives in Pacific Palisades, California, with his wife and three children.

RL

Why, oh WHY, are no high school males even mildly as interesting as that? It looks like I've got to wait for college....

:shrug:

:grr:

Forget college, think grad school. :hi:

Grad school rocked...

outside of classes, that is.

RL

Grad school men, well...

having been a grad-school man at 35, being chased by 20 yr old undergrads...

Hmmm, maybe now I need a PhD? :rofl:

RL

;)

$$$

RL

:D :D

:hi:

Cheer up.

:rofl::rofl: